Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in which that trait appears. Sometimes, genes don't work at all until the environment awakens them.
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Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
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He'd never seen Seinfeld, so he didn't know who Puddy was or anything.
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Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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Peace is only better than war if peace is not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
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I'm very claustrophobic.
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Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.
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The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.
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I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.
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My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.
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When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.
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I sort of feel like 'Mad Men' fans are like sci-fi fans because they are very, very devoted, and they're very loyal and very excited about it.
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When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful.
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People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.
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Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.
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In one sense, you put a lot of yourself into a small press - it's your personal tastes that are on the line - so when criticism is levelled it can feel personal. But, on the other hand, it can be very welcome and necessary. You're never entirely impervious, and one of the main benefits of being a small operation is that you can change the way you do things quickly in response to criticism. In all instances it pays to have a sense of humour and perspective.
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People love a show, especially when freaks are involved.
